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Morality Systems in Gaming

Last night one of my friends told me he had just bought Fallout 3 and he was quite shocked by his moral choices in the game so far; he let a man die, just because he wanted his coat. Lets stop and think about that, he refused to prevent a mans murder because he thought the victims jacket would look better on him. As a reasonable human being this should be something that appalled me, but as someone who played Fallout 3 when it came out, my response was ‘Yeah, I blew up the town that that happened in for a relatively low amount of cash’.

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unchartedxplorer4286d ago

yeah I never did a renegade playthrough of any of the ME games, didn't want any of my squadmates to die.

rpd1234285d ago

I think the morality in Mass Effect is great. Killing the engineer he mentioned is renegade because he posed no threat to you at all. Hacking a mech and killing enemies is different because they actually pose a threat and it is self defense. The engineer was straight up murder though.

Also, Mass Effect choices are never black and white. Like when you have the choice to prevent the geth from becoming sentient and allow them to be destroyed by quarians or you can finish the upload of Reaper code and let the Geth annihilate the Quarians. Neither is a good choice, but it's a choice that needs to be made.

Blacktric4285d ago

OR, you can make them leave their differences aside and fight as one against the Reapers with correct dialogue options if you have enough karmic points. And that's what pissed me off about the endings. You have so many choices in most situations you are thrown into throughout the series, yet only three endings that even with the Extended Cut, feels fairly similar.

rpd1234285d ago

Yeah I didn't have the option to put their differences aside though. It pissed me off because I think if I had, then I would have had enough forces for Shepard to "live". The endings were alright and basically as varied as the previous games, it's just that they promised a lot more than they delivered. The differences between the endings were really minor.

DrRobotnik4285d ago

At least the Morality choices in Fallout 3 gave you a different ending strait out of the box.

Rainstorm814285d ago

I want my morality choices to affect the story more and not be so black and white, I like fable's morality where there's good evil and neutral. ME3 was just too black and white, one dialog option for paragon and one for renegade. But in the end it doesn't feel any different from one another throughout the game.

DrRobotnik4285d ago

Either the Red,green or Blue pill.

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Rolling the Dice: Do Modern RPGs Miss the Point of Team-Based Play?

It seems it was long time ago. A bunch of friends spending hours on end playing RPG games, sitting around the table with the box of cold pizza. Excited about the story, listening to the Game Master, they were completely engaged in the worlds only visible to them and their imaginations.

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Takwin2623d ago

The GM is the programmer, and in MMOs and co-ops, you can play with others. If you want to ONLY use your imagination for the visuals, read a book.

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Record of Agarest War 2 announced for PS3

Scrawl: "Looks like we know how that new Compile Heart countdown is going to end. The latest issue of Famitsu has confirmed that Agarest Senki 2, known as Record of Agarest War 2 in the US, is Compile Heart’s newest title."

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Godmars2905068d ago

1) Hope they put it on disc this time.
2) Hope this is a positive for Neptune coming over as well.

Demons Souls5068d ago

If so, that's being developed & published by Idea Factory. Compile Heart has nothing to do with it (Thank God for that).

Godmars2905068d ago (Edited 5068d ago )

Thought Compile Heart was one of the companies lending characters.

Was also speaking in general as in regards to a US of Neptune. If these guys are offing a second game, NIS or Atlus, both of whom offer quirkier titles, will put that one out.

@kagon01:
My issue isn't - wholly - with the DL-only option, but the price. The first game should be $30. Maybe $40, and by that I mean $39.99. The only reason its $45 is the 360 disc version which has extras. Nevermind that by all rights its a PS2 game. Something that proabbly could have been done if the devs had the GOW2 engine or tools.

ClownBelt5068d ago

I approve of this god damn message.

Could have gotten my 60 bucks if they just put it on a disc.

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Tripl3seis5068d ago

Another exclusive damnn the ps3 keeps on rollin wit games awesome ;)

Jack-Pyro5068d ago

Is this a half decent SRPG, porn aside, cause if it is, i might just decide to go and buy it for the 360.

Anon73495068d ago

There's no porn just some sexual innuendos but that's it.

Also it is a great game by itself, maybe not graphically but everything else is top tier.

RedDevils5068d ago

so it had some kind of "top tier" porn story jk

ThanatosDMC5068d ago

Yup, it's a decent game. I just hate that a move has to go first before any attack options.

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Bless Online Korean MMORPG Gets Server Merge

This is not the first time that Bless Online receives a server merge in Korea. An announcement was made on the official Korean site.

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Bismarn2659d ago

Bless must be an amazing game to be on all these platforms (according to the tags): iPad iPhone Nintendo DS PC PS Vita PS2 PS3 PS4 PSP Wii Wii U Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One